Plant speciation
at Plant Canada 2003

St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
June 26-28 2003


 

Alpine flowers

Helianthus anomalus

Beech forest

Thursday 26 June

   
08:30-08:45 AM
Opening Remarks Loren Rieseberg,
Indiana University, USA
 

Session I Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Plant Speciation
Chairperson: Jonathan Wendel

   
08:45-09:15 AM
Les Gottlieb, University of California, Davis, USA
Speciation in plants: how much has been learned since 1950?
09:15-09:45 AM
Chris Haufler, Kansas University, USA
Fern speciation: Different mechanisms meet different challenges and opportunities
   
09:45-10:15 AM
Break
   
10:15-10:45 AM
Sheri Church, Indiana University, USA
The evolution of reproductive isolation in spatially structured populations
10:45-11:15 AM Loren Rieseberg, Indiana University, USA
Integration of populations and differentiation of species
11:15-11:45 AM Michael Sanderson, University of California, USA
Speciation and the comparative method
   
11:45-12:00 AM Discussion
   
12:00-01:30 PM Lunch
 
Session II. Genetics of Speciation
Chairperson: Loren Rieseberg
   
01:30-02:00 PM John Willis, Duke University, USA
Mating system evolution and speciation in monkeyflowers
02:00-02:30 PM Scott Hodges, UC Santa Barbara, USA, Genetics of floral isolation in Aquilegia
02:30-3:00 PM Caroline Saintagne, INRA, France,
Genomic hotspots of genetic differentiation between European sympatric oak species
03:00-03:30 PM Break
03:30-04:00 PM Don Levin, University of Texas, USA
The cytoplasmic factor in plant speciation
04:00-04:30 PM Tao Sang, Michigan State University, USA
Adaptive divergence and speciation in rice
04:30-05:00 PM Kevin Livingstone, Indiana University, USA
Genetics of hybrid incompatibilities in tomato
   
05:00-05:15 PM Discussion
08:00-10:00 PM Poster Session
   
Friday 27 June
 
Session III Population Histories of Species
Chairperson: Doug Soltis
   
08:30-09:00 AM Tom Givnish and Tom Patterson, University of Wisconsin, USA
Geographic cohesion, parallel adaptive radiations, and consequent floral evolution in Calochortus (Calochortaceae)
09:00-09:30 AM Rob Robichaux, Amy Lawton-Rauh and Michael
Purugganan
, University of Arizona, USA
Adaptive Radiation and Regulatory Gene Evolution in the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance (Asteraceae)
09:30-10:00 AM Boris Igic and Joshua R. Kohn, University of California, USA
Historical inferences from the self-incompatibility locus
   
10:00-10:30 AM Break
   
10:30-11:00 AM Robert Latta, Dalhousie University, Canada
Gene Flow and Adaptive Population Divergence
11:00-11:30 AM R.J. Petit, INRA, France
Phylogeography of European trees
11:30-12:00 AM Richard Abbott, University of St. Andrews, UK
Historical biogeography of circumarctic plants
   
12:00-12:15 AM Discussion
  AFTERNOON AND EVENING FREE
   
Saturday 28 June
   
Session IV. Hybridization and Polyploidy
Chairperson: Richard Abbott
   
08:30-09:00 AM Mike Arnold, University of Georgia, USA
Genetic analyses of hybridizing irises
09:00-09:30 AM Diana Campbell, University of California, USA
Evolutionary dynamics of an Ipomopsis hybrid zone
10:00-10:30 AM Christian Lexer, Indiana University, USA
Hybridization and ecological divergence in sunflowers
   
10:00-10:30 AM Break
   
10:30-11:00 AM Jeannette Whitton, University of British Columbia, Canada
Polyploid incidence and evolution
11:00-11:30 AM Doug Schemske and Justin Ramsey, University of Washington, USA
Polyploid Formation and Establishment: A Simulation Model
11:30-12:00 AM Brian Husband
Evolutionary dynamics of a diploid-tetraploid contact zone: insights into the rate and mode of polyploid speciation
12:00-12:15 AM Discussion
   
12:15-02:00 PM Lunch
   
Session IV Continued
Chairperson
: Jeannette Whitton
   
02:00-02:30 PM Jonathan Wendel, Iowa State University, USA
Hybridization and speciation in Gossypium
02:30-03:00 PM Jeff Doyle, Cornell University, USA
Reticulate evolution in diploid and polyploid perennial soybeans (Glycine subg. Glycine)
   
03:00-03:30 PM Break
   
03:30-04:00 PM Malika Ainouche, University of Rennes, France
Hybridization, Polyploidy and Speciation in Spartina
04:00-04:40 PM Doug/Pam Soltis, University of Florida, USA
Polyploidy and speciation
   
04:40-05:00 PM Discussion
   
07:30-10:00 PM Conference Dinner
  Comments from Verne Grant, University of Texas, USA (paper to be given in his stead by B.L. Turner)
  Closing remarks Jonathan Wendel, Iowa State University, USA

    

Illustrations: Plant Speciation logo by Sam Day. The logo depicts scarlet Gilia, of the Polemoniaceae - the systematics of the Polemoniaceae was one of Verne Grant's specialist fields. Alpine flowers, courtesy of T J Tschaplinski. Helianthus anomalus, courtesy of L Rieseberg. Beech forest, courtesy of R J Norby.
Plant speciation is funded by the New Phytologist Trust

Last updated: January 17, 2007